{"id":91596,"date":"2026-07-21T14:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T14:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/surprisingly-big-deal-economist-on-trumps-new-50-canada-tariffs\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T14:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T14:44:12","slug":"surprisingly-big-deal-economist-on-trumps-new-50-canada-tariffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/surprisingly-big-deal-economist-on-trumps-new-50-canada-tariffs\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Surprisingly big deal&#8217;: Economist on Trump&#8217;s new 50% Canada tariffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump on Monday announced sweeping tariffs against Canada, threatening to reignite a trade battle with one of America\u2019s <!--more--> closest allies and top economic partners. <\/p>\n<p>The 50% tariffs on certain Canadian goods, including electrical equipment and machinery, are among the steepest tariffs his administration has levied against any country. <\/p>\n<p>CNN&#8217;s Phil Mattingly speaks with University of Michigan economics professor Justin Wolfers about the potential ripple effects of Trump&#8217;s new Canada tariffs. Also, CNN&#8217;s David Goldman has the details on the tariffs, and CNN&#8217;s Sara Sidner discusses the issue with the Newsnight panel. <\/p>\n<p>0:00 How are Trump&#8217;s new Canada tariffs different?<br \/>\n2:21 Economist says most of our economic challenges are &#8220;coming straight from Washington&#8221;<br \/>\n3:29 What Canadian good are impacted by Trump&#8217;s new 50% tariffs<br \/>\n5:32 Canadian PM Mark Carney reacts to Trump&#8217;s move <\/p>\n<p>Watch 24\/7 live news with CNN Headlines: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eIvlTr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/4eIvlTr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>#Trump #Canada #News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump on Monday announced sweeping tariffs against Canada, threatening to reignite a trade battle with one of America\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}